19 May 2026
CEO Boardroom | Corporate layoffs: key impacts above strategic decisions
When Audi announced the relocation of the full production from its Brussels’ factory to Mexico 1 year ago, the Belgian Exco had to engage an extremely delicate exercise to demonstrate a blend of legal compliance, strategic planning, and, most importantly, empathy by communicating transparently to all staff and Unions, and supporting the transition until the closure.
What have been the major milestones? And what are the key learnings on how collective layoffs – partial or complete – can be handled with strategic clarity, legal rigor and human responsibility while maintaining trust, protecting brand reputation, and ensuring long-term productivity and performance? This session is privately held and accessible on personal invitation only.June 2026
CEO Think Tank | The DNA of the new corporate leaders
- Setting the tone and directions: major traits of the new generation of corporate leaders
- Digital fluency: how should CEOs lead in fully tech-driven business world
- Geopolitics, society, regulation, social tensions…: how to survive the pressure and navigate constant change
- Projecting confidence, authority and leadership to bridge 5 generations at work
- Moving up the corporate ladder and making lasting impact: the importance of executive presence
October 2026
CEO Think Tank | The path to the agentic enterprise
- Understanding the real transformational value of agentic AI
- Key transition milestones from experimentation to large-scale deployment
- Looking beyond automation to drive operational excellence, innovation and value creation
- Measuring risks, opportunities and key business foundations before investing in agentic AI
November 2026
CEO Think Tank | Operational resilience without destabilizing: the new CEO balancing act
- Geopolitics, cyber-hacking, supply chain breakdown…: assessing and mitigating new business risks
- How to effectively protect critical processes & infrastructures
- Sole technology reliance: which risks and which resilience measures in a tech-driven world?
- Agility, adaptation, business control…: what does operational resiience really mean today?
- Redefining the new rules of risk mitigation and governance
December 2026
CEO Think Tank | Beyond the Bottom line: the path to value creation
- Balancing short-term returns and long term value creation: aligning the CEO versus Board vision
- Shareholders versus stakeholders interest: rethinking the rules of corporate governance
- New reporting practices to differentiate short and long term performance
- Fast impact with low risks: the real driver of value creation?
- The art of value creation: is it about innovation or operational excellence?
